The biggest blowup occurred in October when the National Council of Visual Arts, a state agency that organizes the biennial and other major art events across Cuba, sent a mass email to its member artists denouncing her for spending time with human-rights activists and producing "propagandistic" shows, according to a copy of the email obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

As Fairness And Accuracy (FAIR) points out, "The escalation of the war in Afghanistan is treated as something that cannot be debated (see the Sunday chat shows) or as the only thing that might save the women of that country (see Time magazine's recent propagandistic cover)."